Iraq twin bombings kill seven

Twin bombings targeting Iraqi government offices in Ramadi Monday killed seven people and wounded dozens, in a first test for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki since he assumed the security portfolio.Police said a car bomb exploded near the provincial headquarters in the heart of Ramadi city, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad, followed 15 minutes later by a suicide bombing which witnesses said occurred amid ambulances and rescue workers attending to victims of the first blast.

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The death toll in twin bombings that targeted Iraqi government offices in the western city of Ramadi has risen to nine, a health department official said on Tuesday.Ramadi police had said seven people were killed and at least 51 wounded when a car bomb exploded Monday near the provincial headquarters in the heart of Ramadi, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad, followed 15 minutes later by a suicide bombing.

A car bomb followed minutes later by a suicide bombing in the western Iraq city of Ramadi Monday killed at least seven people, four of them police, and wounded 51, a police official said."A car bomb exploded near the Anbar provincial government offices around 9:30 am (0630 GMT) followed about 15 minutes later by a suicide bombing," said a police spokesman, Rahim Zebinem."Seven people were killed, including four police, and 51 were injured, among them women and children."

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives blew himself up outside the offices of a major Kurdish party in northern Iraq early Wednesday, the deadliest in a wave of morning attacks that killed at least 31 people across the country.

BAGHDAD — Two car bombs in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on Sunday killed 31 people and wounded dozens, the latest in a series of large attacks claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as the country grapples with a worsening political crisis.
The attacks came the day after thousands of anti-government protesters poured into Baghdad’s heavily guarded Green Zone and stormed parliament, the culmination of months of protests by followers of an influential Shiite cleric demanding wide-ranging political reforms.

BAGHDAD — A wave of over a dozen car bombings hit central and southern Iraq during morning rush hour on Monday, officials said, killing at least 51 people in the latest coordinated attack by insurgents determined to undermine the government.

KARACHI, Pakistan — A car bomb exploded outside a mosque on Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a neighbourhood dominated by Shiite Muslims in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi.
No one has taken responsibility for the bombing, but Shiites Muslims have been increasingly targeted by Sunni militant groups in Karachi, Pakistan’s economic hub and site of years of police, sectarian and ethnic violence.

QUETTA, Pakistan — A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 103 people on Thursday, including 69 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said.
The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by Taliban militants in the northwest and Baluch militants in the southwest.